{"id":2816,"date":"2021-12-26T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T09:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2021-12-13T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T15:40:19","slug":"life-goes-on-over-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/2021\/12\/26\/life-goes-on-over-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Goes On Over Christmas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of a restful Christmas and New Year period is one that is relatively recent. For a long period of time, Christmas was a working date, and life carried on. To reflect this, over the next week we will be bringing you a series of some short (and one long) stories, all related to this time of year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taxation and the Irish Famine<\/li>\n<li>Christmas cards<\/li>\n<li>Rents in Wimborne<\/li>\n<li>One woman&#8217;s entry to Herrison Hospital<\/li>\n<li>What a menu can tell us<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And on New Year&#8217;s Eve, look out for our 2021 Year in Review!<\/p>\n<p>A reminder of our opening hours during the next fortnight. Please get in touch if you wish to visit us, to make an appointment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2847\" src=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2021\/12\/MicrosoftTeams-image-3-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2021\/12\/MicrosoftTeams-image-3-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2021\/12\/MicrosoftTeams-image-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2021\/12\/MicrosoftTeams-image-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2021\/12\/MicrosoftTeams-image-3-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2021\/12\/MicrosoftTeams-image-3-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2021\/12\/MicrosoftTeams-image-3.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of a restful Christmas and New Year period is one that is relatively recent. For a long period of time, Christmas was a working date, and life carried on. To reflect this, over the next week we will be bringing you a series of some short (and one long) stories, all related to&hellip; <span class=\"kuorinka-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/2021\/12\/26\/life-goes-on-over-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life Goes On Over Christmas&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[82,72,28,402,109],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}